Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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